A Chinese human rights lawyer missing for almost a year has been judged by legal authorities and “is where he should be,” a Foreign Ministry official said in China’s first public comment on the case.
Gao Zhisheng, one of China’s most daring lawyers, has drawn international attention for the unusual length of his disappearance and for his earlier reports of the torture he said he faced from security forces. In a memoir, he described severe beatings, electric shocks to his genitals and cigarettes held to his eyes.
